Hyderabad: Whatever the fate of the motion, it is certain that the fate of the six Congress MPs who have signed it - Lagadapati Rajagopal, Vundavalli Arun Kumar, A. Sai Pratap, Sabbam Hari, G.V. Harsha Kumar and Rayapati Sambasiva Rao - and S.P.Y. Reddy, a Congress MP who is now with the YSRC, is sealed, and they will be axed from the party.
The Speaker will be petitioned to disqualify them as they have indulged in gross indiscipline.
YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was in Delhi on Monday, met former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda and sought his support for keeping the state united. He said, “In order to attract nationwide attention on how the Congress government is going ahead with bifurcation of the state without going into genuine issues, we have also decided to move a no-confidence motion.”
He said since ruling party members are going ahead with the no-confidence motion, it was his responsibility to support the move; he said he was eager to see how they would get the required support for the motion.
The rebel MPs met in the Central Hall of Parliament in the morning before putting their plan into action. They first met Speaker Miera Kumar and withdrew their resignations which had been pending with her for a long time, in order to enable them to move the no-confidence motion.
An hour later, they met her again with the notices of the no-confidence motion.
Justifying their move, Sabbam Hari said: “We are not worried about the morality of tabling a no-confidence motion against our own government because our party and the UPA have acted in an immoral way over the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.”
Speaking separately, Sambasiva Rao said they were compelled to take this course of action due to the intensity of agitations in their region, and that they were prepared for the consequences.
Seemandhra MPs and Union ministers who did not sign the notice said they are opposed to Telangana but not inclined to see the fall of the government.
Earlier in the day, TD members staged a demo-nstration before the ma-in entrance of Parliament and shouted slogans as members began to troop in. Dr Siva Prasad, dressed as a hill tribal, spoke in a tribal dialect.
In the Lok Sabha, the Congress and TD members stormed into the well of the House and shouted slogans opposing the bifurcation. Speaker Meira Kumar’s efforts to bring some or-der and take up regular business, failed. The House was adjourned till noon. But when it reassembled after an hour, the unruly behaviour conti-nued and it was adjourned again till 2 pm.
There were similar scenes in the Rajya Sabha where TD and Bahujan Samajwadi Party members trooped into the well of the House and shouted slogans pertaining to their respective deman-ds. The BSP members demanded the dismissal of the Uttar Pradesh go-vernment, which brought the Samjawadi Party members into the fray.
Chairman Hamid Ans-ari then adjourned the House till noon and later again till 2 pm and then since there was no let-up in the agitations, both Houses were adjourned for the day without any further business.
